unknown partition table

Daniel Armstrong dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Jun 29 23:36:23 UTC 2006


On 6/29/06, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I have tried connecting this external drive to other Linux machines...
> > same problem. Running cfdisk on the drive gives the result above...
> > fdisk and QTParted show an empty drive.
> >
> gpart is nice, it scans the disk and figures out what the partition
> table ought to be.

Thanks for the gpart suggestion! Looks like a useful tool - I am
reading its man page right now, and will give it a try.
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